Super Tuesday sees Trump and Clinton triumph: scholars around the globe react
Mar 02, 2016 09:47 am UTC| Politics
On Super Tuesday, voters from more than a dozen U.S. states vote in presidential primaries with important consequences for the candidates. We asked three scholars in different parts of the world to comment on the results...
US election series: Scorecard and explainer (Democrats)
Mar 02, 2016 09:41 am UTC| Commentary Politics
US presidential election series: Scorecard and explainer (Democrats) Election in Worlds largest economy is a must watch, since it is likely to have years of implications with regard to policies, both economic and...
US election series: Trump and Clinton wins big in Super Tuesday
Mar 02, 2016 09:01 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Results of Super Tuesday is almost out and it seems Mr. Donald Trump and Mrs. Hilary Clinton will be partying tonight. Both of them edged closer to become their partys nominee for the top job contest. However the race is...
How the political crises of the modern Muslim world created the climate for Islamic State
Mar 02, 2016 02:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Harith Bin Ramli, Research Fellow, Cambridge Muslim College Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London How do we account for forces and events that paved the way for the emergence of Islamic State? Our series on the...
Is a constitutional challenge to Senate voting reforms likely to succeed?
Mar 02, 2016 01:55 am UTC| Law Politics
The response of those senators whose re-election is threatened by the proposed Senate voting reforms has been to lash out with claims of unconstitutionality and threaten High Court challenges. Are these reforms vulnerable...
Iran's cynical pandering to its ethnic minorities will do it no good
Mar 01, 2016 16:40 pm UTC| Politics
Irans parliamentary election has yielded a victory for the so-called reformists, an apparent vote of confidence in Hasan Rouhanis relatively moderate government after the deal to curb Tehrans nuclear weapons programme. But...
Are 'extremist' candidates electable?
Mar 01, 2016 16:28 pm UTC| Politics
Can extremist candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump win general elections? Are they electable? The correct answer sounds like a cop-out. It depends. Most importantly, it depends on the state of the...